Dude... why are all your tutorials straight to the point with no fluff? Why are you giving useful and practical information? One of the few channels that I can actually learn from. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Nah this is like one of the best videos I have ever seen on music production, as i like to add toploops for texture but they seem off most of the time which leaves me with this akward position of not wanting to cut it but not want to include it either. You are a lifesaver.
I haven't seen this video. Cool explanation, I want to add something as well, I made a track last year and I used in total 11 percussions, some of them are simple one-shots percs and the other 6 percussions are loops. What is important to note is that, in order to make room for each and every one , is not just about EQ, advanced width & advanced panning techniques, but is also about the sidechain of those percussions. Each percussion in my production has different sidechain. I use LFOtool for sidechain, some are hard side-chained, some are normal sidechained, and everything sits well in the mix. Those percussions were used in order to bring a much more energy to a track at a low bpm (not just to be groovy, but more energy). It was a trance/future rave track at 128 bpm, which I made it, to feel energetic like a trance track produced at 136 bpm, so basically I focused on percussions (plus other elements) to make a more energetic track at lower bpm. When you mix it at 130 bpm, sounds wilder :))
Lol I just asked SSOL about this a week ago and here you make a video on this exact topic, wonder if he gave you the idea 😂 Thanks for very helpful tutorial!
I was so used to logic grooves that when I switched to Ableton it messed me up but seeing how you do it is validating my process. That little release gate is underrated for cleaning loops up to fit together. They need to add automation to it too so we don’t have to keep resampling it
Zen, any chance you have the sauce on recreating the ARP 303 Saw from Sylenth1 in Serum, big fan of the sound but have been having trouble getting it to sound perfect. Idk if I'm missing something in the patch... Fire vid as always, you're on of the people that got me into music production and have been such a help throughout the way
Do you have a suggestion on making these kinds of loops? What I did was printing from grooveboxes and applying an fx chain, do you have more trchniques that are quick?
Im brand new to ableton. Im confused on how you added the swing back. You jsut quantized everything on beat. How did you match the swing to the lead drum loop that you chose? how do you get the swing back after you quantize everything.
That's why house music sucks mostly, It's a matter of being aware and take care of using 1 swing value for all the parts and be careful when combining things (sometimes it's not a problem and becomes the fitting vibe but that's only with separate loops not with full loops) Timing is so important because we are sub millisecond accurate (about 200 microsecond accurate)
